ABSTRACT
The growth history of a brachiopod is entombed in its shell, but research on fossil and living brachiopods has generated unanswered questions about these marine invertebrates. Several contributors to Brachiopods Past and Present comment on their differing structures and morphological detail. They use these as examples of ontogenetic and evolutionar
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Living brachiopods and palaeobiology
part |2 pages
Part II Advances in molecular studies
part |2 pages
Part III Evolution and phylogeny
part |2 pages
Part IV Palaeoecology and ecology
part |2 pages
Part V Palaeobiogeography and biostratigraphy